Food creations

Food creations...I wanted so badly to paint with spaghetti that I decided on Food as a theme. At the time, I had a bit of a mental block past different fruit and veggie stamps and spaghetti noodles. I am so happy that I thought of the potato heads, they were great!!! Parents, if you are looking for something to pass the time potato heads are fun and great. I will be adding those to the list of awesome crafts to do with kids! I have since thought of some other fun things to do with food so next time I guess. We did try a combination of yahtzee and marble painting with dried beans, paint, yogurt containers, and paper. I thought that if we put the paint in the container with some beans and put the lid on SHAKE IT, and then dump the beans onto the paper below it would be exciting. It was interesting but found out less if more with the paint in this situation. Marble painting seems to work out much easier as far as mixing colors and such. Our food stamps we great, I am a huge fan of potato stamping - easy and you can cut whatever shapes you want or need. Red peppers were great and apples are another favorite!
I would like to say a big hello to the new brother in Lily and Nadia's house. Hooray girls, and welcome baby boy.

Spring 2009 - Easter

So sorry that it took me so long to get this post up! Easter is already been and gone, 2 weeks late I am! We have been in the middle of moving and I am really enjoying this weather! Love being outside right now! So the Spring program has started, we are 2 weeks in. Our first week being Easter theme, we wore bunny noses and hopped from table to table creating all different kinds of art. The kids made shakers out of those plastic eggs. They put dried lentils and beans into their plastic containers, mom taped it shut...viola music! I put out glitter glue and sticky foam shapes for decorating the eggs, they looked great! And alot of fun. Kids made easter baskets out of yogurt containers, tissue paper and paint. I saw a few of them out at the local egg hunt with their baskets, it was great! I made up some festive stamps which I quite liked. I think that its time that Becky puts the stamps away for abit I think... Oh and lets not forget play dough bunnys with pipecleaner!!! Actually we even had some playdough Easter sluggs! Easter is always fun, exciting and full of sugar, I tried to get the first 2, leaving out the third for Sunday, I think it worked. I love seeing kids in their easter outfits, noses, ears and smiles. Iyla...chocolate mustache

Last week of the Winter program

With all the snow and frost finally starting to melt, we celebrated Spring in our last class of the Winter program! We decorated flower pots and planted some sunflower seeds, Iyla's is already stating to pop out of the soil!!! We created colorful pom pom caterpillar creatures on leaves, everyone loved the feeling of running their hands through the box of pom poms. We created mosaic butterflies with different kinds of dried veggies and noodles. And we decorated flowers with tissue paper. A complete celebration to spring!
Thanks to all the parents and children, we managed to donate $100 to the No. 6 Mine park this time around.

Easter Theme

This week...Easter!!!! Don't worry parents I won't have candy, I am sure that they will get enough this weekend without me contributing! Hope to see all your little bunnies this Thursday for the first week of the Spring Program!
Don't forget all of you afternoon people time change from 2-3 to 1-2.